Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

"Missile torpedo found on port side!"

Following the crew's shout, the soldiers sitting by the portholes in the cabin looked at the flying blue fluorescent lights.

"May the God-Emperor keep us safe——"

Just when the triumphant officers and soldiers were facing the speeding heavy seeker missiles, their expressions were solemn and cowardly, "Ignore you Lei Mou! You street-walking aliens! Shit! Hey! Get out of the way, let it go!"

The bespectacled commando sergeant spoke a low Gothic dialect with an ancient Terran accent, and cursed fiercely at the alien creatures attacking from the void.

After cursing, he ran to the gun position, personally operated the close-in defense gun on the side of the transport ship, aimed at the incoming Seeker missiles and began to fire.

"I'm after it!"

Faxia flew the Skyhawk 1 past, skillfully letting the cannon shells advance by a certain amount, and exploded one of the missiles flying towards the transport plane.

Just as the second shot was about to hit the transport ship, it was directly fired by the close-in defense gun controlled by the commando sergeant who volunteered.

"Wuhu~" After successfully hitting the target, the sergeant jumped up and shouted excitedly.

Captain Zhao wiped the sweat from his forehead with officer's white gloves, and shouted to the soldiers packed in the transport plane: "It's okay, return to normal!"

Let's sing a military song to cheer up our Navy colleagues. Get ready, get up, and sing!

Qi joins the army and cleanses himself from the dust! I swear to sweep away the titanium slaves regardless of my own safety! "

In order to relieve the tense mood of the soldiers, the officer took the lead and sang a military song to boost morale.

"Be patient and miss your family! Generously show your heart to serve the country!"

Go to the battlefield with a proud smile, the flag is fluttering and the sun is fading!

The air blows the sky into the moon, and the long arrow shoots at the wolf! "

The inspiring singing voice echoed throughout the transport flight.

In the void, the hunt is still going on.

After the Epic's craftsman checked and confirmed, the mechanical valve opened, and with a bang, a large amount of air escaped into the void along with the round metal creation.

A set of cables was released from the rear of the Epic, and at the end of the cables was a device that looked like a small copper satellite.

That is the 'Soothsayer' detector that can continuously send detection waves.

The device can be fired from a torpedo well by an Imperial battleship and can also be towed in this form.

"Quiet, be silent."

Horatio put on the monitoring headphones himself, looked like a hawk, and locked the tactical panel display.

Drip·—Dip··

"Not around here."

"Turn left," Horatio ordered without looking back.

The Epic quickly turned around from the gas cloud, and the towed detector also made a smooth arc.

"Captain, do you want to turn on the ship's bird detection radar?" Harvey asked.

"No!"

Horatio flatly refused: "Before discovering the exact location of the enemy, any act of exposing ourselves may cost us our lives. Be careful, gentlemen."

Time passed by, and the Epic was still unable to determine the location of the enemy mothership. Facing the huge void,

The calmness that lurks in danger is eerie.

But this also makes Horatio's Iron Hand skill activated at the end of the planet Phar useful.

‘Activate: Void Commander (Junior)’

The sceneries in the surrounding 3,000 cubic kilometers area were projected directly into his mind with an accuracy that even the most advanced detectors could not match.

Although the "fog of war" still exists, the areas detected by each ship are being transmitted to the Epic in the form of electrical signals, and then transmitted to his mind along the nerve plug, allowing him to have a clear understanding of the situation in the surrounding known airspace. Clearly.

"Will the enemy ship escape?" David Beatty raised a possibility:

"Our transport ship performed torpedo avoidance maneuvers, and there were escort ships hunting the destroyers beside it. If I were the Tau commander, I would definitely withdraw when I saw both sub-ships sinking."

"Stop making noise! ​​Quiet!" Harvey noticed something. Facing the source of the noise next to him, he gave David Betty an elbow and whispered, then tightened the monitoring headphones and continued to concentrate.

"Wait a minute, there's something going on." He suddenly raised his head, his face showing excitement and nervousness.

Suddenly, his closed eyes suddenly opened: "It's an enemy missile!"

He jumped and shouted, and Horatio, who had obtained the detection vision, almost immediately discovered the incoming heavy seeker missile in his void sandbox.

"The launch point is to our left. She must have discovered the signal wave emitted by our towed detector! Immediately track the missile trajectory and lock on the enemy target!

All ships have it, and relative coordinates are used from now on! "

Horatio immediately issued a series of ship maneuver orders in an orderly manner.

The relative coordinate system is a positioning mode that divides the polar coordinate system from 0 clockwise to 360 degrees into left and right sectors of 180 degrees to facilitate the captain to quickly determine the enemy's position during single navigation operations.

"The missile passed through the lower plane of our ship, and the launch direction was 86 degrees to the port side. The target was the signal source of the towed detector." Let's install it more closely, shrink the cable, and turn off the radiation wave source after 10 seconds. "

"Shrink the cable and turn off the radiation wave source after 10 seconds!"

! !

The cable contracted under the drive of the motor, causing the detector's trajectory to look similar to that of an Imperial battleship accelerating to avoid it.

On the Tau battleship where the direction was unknown, the blue-skinned alien stared at the projection and smiled proudly.

"Take your stubbornness and disappear, haters, for the sake of the Greater Good."

Two more heavy Seeker missiles were fired from the aircraft and headed straight into the center of the gas cloud.

"Enemy missile! Port side 73! Phase ZL! Accurate target!"

"Now, full left rudder!"

The Epic turned sharply like a hound smelling blood, rushing towards the enemy mothership hidden in another cloud of gas.

With the cover of the gas cloud, even if it is now overspeeding, the shadow field that can only operate at half power can also hide the whereabouts of the Epic before rushing out of the gas cloud, because its front projection radar reflection wave is small enough.

"Torpedo No. 4 is ready, use wire guidance control!"

"Wire connection completed!"

"Open No. 3! No. 4! Torpedo shaft!"

"No. 3 and No. 4 torpedo shafts have been opened!"

"Hey, our boss must have caught the enemy!" Old man Joe sat on the hanging beam and knocked on the torpedo that had just been maintained with the wrench in his hand: "Look at this big flying stick, it's thick and long, it must be very powerful when inserted!"

Although he belonged to the damage control team, in order to show his loyalty to Horatio, he volunteered to take his two sons to volunteer to maintain the torpedo when there was no damage control mission, and he also had the intention of learning more skills of housekeeping.

On the command bridge, all officers held their breath and stared at the gas cloud in front of them.

"Torpedo silo No. 4, fire!"

Whoosh!

The Helios torpedo with a wire came out of the silo and sank into the gas cloud. It was followed by a wire that was only 500 kilometers long. Under the condition that it did not exceed this distance, the mechanical priests of the torpedo department could control the torpedo to turn.

Not long after, the gas cloud showed the vague light of the ion engine - that was the iconic color of the engine of the Tau warship.

"The third torpedo was launched with a given lead!"

The Tau warship started slowly, and the Seeker missile launch port was located in the ship's part. It would definitely turn now.

The first wire-guided torpedo fired was biased to the left, so the enemy ship could only turn to the right, otherwise it would collide head-on with the No. 4 torpedo fired.

Seizing this point, Horatio asked the torpedo officer Fideo to calculate the lead time for the right turn.

"Turn on the ship's detection auspicious instrument! Quick!"

Beep!

The Epic sent out an active detection wave.

The obvious engine heat signature of the Tau warship, coupled with the signal wave positioning of the Epic's high-power detector, made it impossible for her to hide in the gas cloud.

"It is indeed the Envoy class! You guessed it right, Captain!" After observing the specific image characteristics, Louise compared the manual and reported to Horatio in an admiring tone.

"She is finished today!"

After locking the specific position of the enemy ship, Fideo quickly calculated the lead time using the torpedo calculator.

"Torpedo lead calculation completed!"

"Launch torpedo number three!"

Whoosh!

Another super-giant steel rod with a length of 100 meters and a diameter of 20 meters flew towards the enemy ship that had already turned.

Horatio pinched the stopwatch and counted silently in his heart.

The Envoy-class light cruiser had already turned at this time and could not launch heavy seeker missiles at the Epic.

But the ion cannons and rail guns on the ship still fired at the approximate location of the Epic, trying to make a final resistance.

The chaotic volleys of railgun shells and plasma groups exploded around the Epic, and the scattered matter that had lost most of its power formed a shock wave, which impacted the slender and light-tonnage ship. The Epic was like being beaten by fists and feet, and it shook violently.

When the first wave of explosions spread throughout the ship, many crew members fell down unexpectedly.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?! We were hit?" Old man Joe looked at the shaking around him and said in surprise.

"Wow! Dad, what's going on?! It hurts!" Old man Joe's youngest son wailed continuously. A small wrench that fell from the maintenance platform bounced and fell on his head, causing a big bump on his chicken coop hair. He covered his head and got under the torpedo to avoid the small things falling from the high place.

"Everyone stay calm! Our ship is in a normal battle with the enemy ship. All departments are performing their duties step by step. The damage control team is checking for cracks on the outer hull!" Leidos, the chief officer of the engineering department, picked up the microphone and issued maintenance instructions to the damage control team via wired communication.